Since Balas and Zemel in the 1980s introduced the so-called core problem as an efficient tool for solving the Knapsack Problem, all the most successful algorithms have applied this concept. Balas and ...

The unbounded knapsack problem: given a knapsack of some capacity and a set of items that have a weight and a value, determine the maximum value of items you can place in your knapsack. The number ...

Several types of large-sized 0-1 Knapsack Problems (KP) may be easily solved, but in such cases most of the computational effort is used for sorting and reduction. In order to avoid this problem it ...